A seven-wicket haul from Yasir Shah finished a decided
turnaround from Pakistan, who took the Galle Test by 10 wickets subsequent to
recuperating from an unsafe position toward the begin of the 4th
morning. Pakistan had been five down and 182 behind Sri Lanka's first-innings
downright at the time; few could have anticipated then that their openers would
waltz to an objective of 90 at eight runs a more than a day and a half later.

The recovery, started by Sarfraz Ahmed and Asad Shafiq's 6th
wicket association and conveyed forward by Yasir's bubbling legbreaks on the 5th
evening, additionally vindicated Misbah-ul-Haq's choice to bowl first. With the
1st day washed out, Pakistan's most obvious opportunity with regards
to winning lay in batting just once. As it happened, they practically pulled
off an innings win; Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad just required 11.2 overs
to finish the pursuit.

A year ago, in a Test match between the same sides at the
same ground, Sri Lanka took an 82-run first innings lead. Near the begin of the
last day, Pakistan were 4 for 1 in their 2nd innings. A draw looked
the probable result, yet Rangana Herath turned Pakistan out for 180 preceding
Sri Lanka dashed to their objective of 99 at a run a ball, with downpour
sneaking around the bend.

Presently, the circumstances were conveniently switched, and
Pakistan required somebody to venture up and match Herath's execution. Yasir
gave the soonest conceivable hint that he would be that man; his first bundle
of the morning was a superbly pitched topspinner. Dilruwan Perera, the night
watchman, didn't pick it, and carried arms. It proceeded with the point and
pegged back his off stump.

Starting there until lunch, Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru
Thirimanne managed Yasir's danger easily enough to propose that the turn and
ricochet that had been in ample proof on the second and third days had eased
off impressively. In any case, their solace level at the wrinkle didn't
interpret into simple runs. The knocking down some pins was testing all
through, and Zulfiqar Babar and Hafeez fixed the screws by doling out just 10
keeps running in seven overs as lunch drew closer.

This spell of narrowing may have had something to do with
the shot Thirimanne endeavored when Wahab Riaz went ahead for his second spell
of the morning, a driven on-the-up drive that brought about an edge to first
slip. Wahab created additional skip with that ball, yet it was still an
imprudent shot considering the present situation.

That turned into a subject amid the second session. There was
some debate in the way of Angelo Mathews' release, however it was the shot
choice of the more youthful batsmen that hurt Sri Lanka the most. Karunatne ground
it out for 173 balls before getting baffled endeavoring a frightful hurl
against Yasir. Trying to hit himself out of the bad habit like grasp applied by
the spinners, Kithuruwan Vithanage holed out at reflective square leg. Had they
stayed in for a further 20 overs, aggregately, and scored an additional 50
runs, Pakistan's fourth-innings assignment may have been a great deal
additionally difficult.

In any case, the Mathews wicket was still urgent, both as
far as significance and timing. Wahab had rejected Thirimanne minutes before
lunch, and had broken a 69-run 4th-wicket stand; now Mathews was
confronting the second ball after lunch.

Mathews was done in by the points of confinement of
two-dimensional replays to figure out what happened in a three-dimensional
world. The ball from Yasir slid on with the point and as Mathews squeezed
forward to safeguard, it either brushed his inside edge or slid past it, before
ricocheting off his front cushion into short leg's hands.

Umpire Richard Illingworth gave it out, and Mathews quickly
explored. Part screen replays proposed Mathews may not have edged it, with the
ball seeming to have passed the bat while saw from the square-on edge when bat
and ball were nearest together from the front-on point. Whether that was
indisputable confirmation or not is begging to be proven wrong; the third
umpire thought not, and Illingworth's choice stood.

Sri Lanka were presently 144 for 5, viably 27 for 5. Yasir,
who had looked somewhat level since releasing Dilruwan with the first wad of
the day, was re-stimulated. The zip was back, the ball was plunging on the
batsmen when they descended the track, and tearing past their edge when they
squeezed forward to guard.

Dinesh Chandimal was discovering approaches to score keeps
running toward one side, protecting emphatically and utilizing his feet well
when the ball was hurled up, however the lower request gave him no backing.
Dhammika Prasad kept running down the track to Zulfiqar Babar, trudged, and
missed by a mile. Herath trudged Yasir straight to profound midwicket.

In the long run, Yasir delivered one that was too useful for
Chandimal, coaxing him out with flight and overcoming him with plunge and sharp
turn. Chandimal grabbed before his body and attempted to whip against the turn,
without any result. Sarfraz finished his third baffling of the innings, Yasir
had grabbed his initial seven-for in top notch cricket.